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Coraline Carter had once woken up in an alien place. Instead of waking up in her warm bed and clutching Jeremiah the toy horse, Coraline had woken in a cold, damp enclosed room- a prison. She had spent such a long time in there, she had clawed at the walls and cried until finally her daddies came and found her. That had been the worst day on her time on the island, much worse than the time when she had woken as a boy.

Coraline learned from her experiences. She learned not to blindly run in temples when the floor could give way, she learned not to trust creepy mothers who wanted to give you everything and she learned that when you go to bed, you prepare just in case you find yourself in the bad place again. So, she wasn't in the bad place this time but she certainly wasn't in her bed and she was greatful for the wellington boots she wore to bed because the ground would have been cold and damp and hard against bare feet.

"Hello?" Coraline called out, wiping her eyes tiredly as she stretched and yawned. This wasn't her hut and she couldn't see Adam anywhere. He was going to be very angry with her when he found her bed empty again. "Hello? Adam? Is anyone there?"

Coraline walked through the bushes before pausing as she heard a rather loud roar. That sounded like a dinosaur. That sounded like a dinosaur! Oh, wow. She was in dino territory. Oh, bugger Adam was going to kill her. Well, if he was going to kill her anyway at least she could go and have a proper look at the dinosaurs.

"Hello? Mister dinosaur? I won't hurt you," Coraline said as she wandered off towards unknown dangers.

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In Cassie's experience, while fighting monsters was fun, waiting in safety for the danger to pass was the smarter thing to do. And with two younger teenagers to look out for, Cassie opted for smarterr. Not that she was sure she wanted to go after a dinosaur even with her super powers.

Once both girls were on the ground and she was certain that the dinosaur wasn't coming back, Cassie began to climb down herself. It might have been how wet the wood was or the worn down tread on the bottom of her sneakers, but something caused her to slip when she put her feet on a lower branch and before she knew it, she was falling to earth. When she hit the ground with her leg at an awkward angle, the only reason she didn't scream from pain was because the wind had been completely knocked out of her to the point she could barely breath for a few long moments.

Felicity only realized that she was holding her breath when her feet finally touched solid ground and she was able to breath again. She waited for the others, rocking back and forth on her heels, hands gripping at her jeans as she waited for the others to climb back down.

She breathed a bit easier when Coraline reached the ground-she was almost certain that she would attempt jumping-but when she saw Cassie's foot slip against a branch, she barely had time to stop herself from crying out.

"Cassie!" Coraline said as she dropped awkwardly to the ground, her leg crumpling oddly. Coraline knew that wasn't right and the look on Cassie's face confirmed it. Coraline didn't feel scared or sick or anything anymore, she was detirmined. She had to help Cassie. "Are you okay? Did you land funny? Can you move your leg? You haven't broken it, have you?"

Cassie could only lay back on the ground and breath for a few long minutes, her hands clenched in the dirt under her as she desperately tried not to scream. After a bit, she attempted to move but all of her senses were clouded by pain. "Holy Hera..." was about all she got in answer to Coraline's questions.

Finally, biting her lip almost to point of making it bleed against the pain, Cassie pushed herself up to an almost sitting position. "I've never broken a bone before," she said softly, finally getting a good look at her leg. "But that angle isn't natural."

When Felicity was nine years old, a startled horse had stepped on her arm, breaking it. It wasn't the same as a leg but the angle was painfully familiar, enough that her arm started to ache again.

She tried to ignore it as she hurried over, trying to get a better look.

"It looks broken." She said, examing it as best she could-which wasn't much given the circumstances. They had used leeches on her arm to reduce swelling, but even if there were leeches here they didn't have time to find them. "If we can reset your leg, hopefully it could hold long enough till we get some help."

She wasn't feeling to well: maybe from cold, or having not eaten, but anyone looking at her would've noticed that Felicity's complexion had taken a slightly green color. All she noticed was that she was trying to not throw up.

"No, you don't want to do that. It'll hurt and it might make things worse!" Coraline said the idea of resent the bone both terrified Coraline and really intrigued her. Coraline wanted to help, she wanted to be a doctor but she didn't want to make it worse for Cassie. She wasn't a doctor yet but she had done a Brownie badge in first aid. "We just need to wrap it and then check that blood is still getting to Cassie's toes and she can feel it or wiggle them. Okay, I'm really sorry Cassie it's going to hurt for a while but we'll get you back to the clinic."

Coraline checked Cassie's foot and leg being careful when she touched it to check the circulation. Coraline sneezed and wiped her hands on her pants as she tried to concentrate on Cass.

"Okay, we need something to hold Cassie's foot like fabric and sticks. Cardboard is better, that's what we used in Brownies but I don't think dinosaurs have time for arts and crafts. We'll get you fixed up Cassie then we'll get you home. It'll be okay."

It already hurt so that wasn't a problem. Cassie's concentration was drifting in and out but she did hear the part about wiggling her toes. Biting her lip as she concentrated, she managed to move them slightly before crying out softly. "Toes are...moveable."

She took a deep breath and look at the two girls with as steady a gaze as she could manage. "It's okay. Coraline's right, we should..." She gritted her teeth for a moment, "wrap it then get going. We can't stay here unless that dino comes back."

Felicity looked at coraline. "If it's already broken it already hurts."

They were right in either case, but cardboard was useless in such weather. They had fabric atleast, well, she and Coraline anyway, and they had sticks, or well, they could look for them.

She started looking for a sharp stick. "Come on, we could make bandages using strips of fabric."

Coraline bent down pulling the bottoms of her pyjama bottoms out of her wellies. Coraline tugged the fabric, ripping it in her hands up to her knees. It was hard but it wasn't as hard as some of the things she had done. She was cold but she wouldn't get any sicker for shorter bottoms and they'd be home soon. And then Adam could take care of her or tell her off either way.

"Here, we'll use this." Coraline said, holding the fabric tightly as she looked for sticks that would help. Being very gentle Coraline touched Cassies legs and started to wrap it. "It'll be okay Cassie, you'll see. And maybe when we're back you'll get lots of magical kisses, you know the kind that makes you better."

Coraline might have been thirteen but she still believed in magical kisses.

Cassie gritted her teeth and laid back again, trying not to make a sound against the pain as Coraline began wrapping her leg, though the thought of magical kisses made her laugh soundlessly, though the laugh died quickly when she released the first thought in her head had been Kon...not Chekov.

So instead, she concentrated on taking deep, even breaths until Coraline was done. "Thanks Coraline."

Felicity had never heard of 'magical kisses': when she or any of her siblings were wounded, they may've been given a few words of encouragment or a hug or a pet, but no kiss. She didn't think it would've made much of a difference either way, but she also didn't think it was the time to argue.

She set about finding sticks for them to use, setting them between the bands of fabric that Coraline wrapped around Cassie's leg.

She wondered if anyone was looking for them.

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